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RE: Knowledge of History + Economics = Disbelief in Government
Gold and silver arose naturally through barter. You're confusing "coinage" with gold and silver dust and nuggets that were first traded in markets, especially in Africa, as money.
"Gold and silver arose naturally through barter." Did you mean to have the word money in there? Because if not, gold and silver arose naturally through a super nova.
Barter isn't the same thing as money and there is no archaeological evidence of an economy, even a small one, operating on barter. If gold and silver were intrinsically valuable for barter, why was it not valued by the entire societies on the American continents before the Spaniards arrived?
The reason gold and silver were used as money is because the state demanded it in taxes. There is evidence that this may have had religious reasons--gold may have been hoarded by temples and brought by worshipers, and thus may have had a divine nature attached to it.
People gathered gold and salt across the Sahara before it was collected as taxes. The barter system arose to a monetary level over time.
It was never contingent on taxes.
Taxes were only a mechanism for furtherance of what was already subjectively valued and used to trade among people across the Arabian peninsula and into Africa.